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Symptoms

OBIEE 11g was scaled out horizontally across 2-nodes, it was discovered that the Presentation Server (OBIPS) was no longer deployed / running in instance2 on Node-2

On Node-2, <MW_HOME>/instances/instance2/bin/opmnctl status does not list the "coreapplication_obips1" component; and there is no <ias-component id="coreapplication_obips1"> entry in the <MW_HOME>/instances/instance2/config/OPMN/opmn/opmn.xml file.

In Enterprise Manager > Business Intelligence > coreapplication > Availability > Processes, see there is no "coreapplication_obips1" for instance2.

The following errors are written in the Enterprise Manager log file <BI_DOMAIN>/servers/AdminServer/sysman/log/emoms.log:-

The following were also observed:-1. <BI_DOMAIN>/config/fmwconfig/biee-domain.xml (On Node-1 and Node-2) shows a "coreapplication_obips1" in instance22. <BI_DOMAIN>/opmn/topology.xml (On Node-1) shows a "coreapplication_obips1" in instance23. <MW_HOME>/instances/instance2/config/OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent exists but is empty4. <MW_HOME>/instances/instance2/... contains various other OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent sub-folders